After reading A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler, it is difficult not to notice the similarities between the two plays. Each has a wife troubled by her mistakes in the past and a dramatic end to all of her sufferings. However, many people consider A Doll's House to be the better of the two plays by Henrik Ibsen. Some even go so far as to say that Hedda Gabler is a parody of A Doll's House. Even though, on the surface, A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler share a variety of common components, the main driving point behind each seems to be vastly different, being the lack of reliability that appearances hold and how the past never seems to matter until it catches up, respectively.
